Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 31, 1955

The Deep Blue Sea (London Film; 20th Century-Fox), if not soap opera, is certainly no better than detergent drama. In this British movie, Playwright Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan seems to be cautioning the middle-aged married woman about switching from a dull husband to a young lover: the change may only mean a painful, new set of harness sores.

The picture begins as Vivien Leigh, with a slug of gas and a Seconal chaser, is trying to end her life. When the neighbors break in and save her, she lapses into a flashback about...

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